Type-bar blank.



No. 858,755. PATENTED JULY 2, 1907.

' P. H. RICHARDS. TYPE BAR BLANK.

APPLICATION rum) NOV. 23. 1900.

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Wave jzwlztn f No. 858,755. PATENTED JULY 2, 1907.

P. RICHARDS. TYPE BAR BLANK.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 23, 1900.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 bar, thereby enabling a number of the bars to be piled Fig. 4 is a view o f the upper edge thereof.

' 1 UNITED STA ES PATENT OFFICE. j

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, or HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNEASSIGNMENTS,

. r0 AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHIQ CRPCRATICN, A CORPORATION or NEW JERSEY.

TYPE-Bria BLANK.

Patented July 2, 1907.

' Application filed November 23,1906. Serial No. 37,421,.

. To all whom it may eonccrm Be it known that I, FRANCIS H. Bron-Anus, a citizen oi the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut; have invented I certain'new andnseful Improvements in Type-Bar up fairly and solidly. I A c.

A further object sought to be attained by the present invention is a reduction in the total area of contact between bar and bar, that the tendency to an uneven bearing of one on the other shall be diminished, while another object is to furnish such a type-bar construction as shall allow a given amount-of typographic matter to be set up with a minimum quantity of metal.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a view of the side face of a portion of a type-bar blank embodying my present improvement. Fig. 2 i s a similar view to Fig. 1 but-shows the opposite face. Fig. 3'isa cross section of such a blank' Fig. 5 is a view on a somewhat larger scaleshowing the upper edge of a part of a type-bar with characters formed thereon. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a number of assembled type-bar s, one of the bars being shown as removed from its assembled position in association with the other bars and laid down, the better to exhibit the ing between contiguous type-bar faces when made acand the bar formed therefrom are provided with depressions, those on one side will preferably be made to run in another direction to the direction taken by the depressions on the other face. This relative arrangement will bring the depressions and elevations separating them on-. any one face angularly disposed with respect to the corresponding features on a contact face,

and thus the contact between bar and bar will be over a B and shows in this instance a series of longitudinal or lengthwise channels or depressions 2 formed therein. Four such channels are shown, but of course, it is readily. understood that this particular number in no wise defines the limits of thein vention. Reference to Fig. 2., shows the opposite face of the blank B, in which there is also fbrmedanother series of channels or depressions 3, which are represented as beingangularly-digposed with respect to the channels on the face presented by Fig. 1. In the particular arrangement shown, the channelsor depressions 3 extend transnumber of small areas where the elevations cross each A other. Fig. 1 is a view of the side face ofa type-bar blank versely across the bar. I do not, however, wish to be face is formed with a flat, smooth surface, and.v still come within the spirit of the present invention. And,

again, either one or both of the two series of channels may extend at another angle to theboundary line of'a face of the bar instead of substantially parallel or perpendicular thereto. These-channels may be formed upon the blanks, during the process of making, and

when one edge of the blank is left in condition to have s5 wrought, or otherwise formed thereon, characters to constitute it a type-bar. An illustration of characters formed or wrought upon the edge of a blank is the bar 'channels, whether longitudinal, transverse, or otherwise, this will depend to some extent upon the particular process of blank-forming adopted. If the blanks are wrought to shape, the channels may extend lengthwise or longitudinally on one side, while the other side is Channeled or not, as desired.

It has beenbefore stated that preferably the two series of channels or depressions cross each other along any contacting surface. This is shown in Fig. 6, which represents a niimber of bars assembled or piled together, one of the bars being removed from its assembled position to illustrate the relative disposition of the channels. It will be evident that upon similar faces of the separate bars, considered with respect to the top or bottom of the characters thereon, the channels run in the same direction; hence upon assembling the bars the two series of depressions 2 and 3 will extend across each other and Contact between the'bars will occur the upper edge of the bar, such as shown in Fig. 4, and

on'a larger scale in Fig.6, A more uniform appearance is secured if the series of channels or depressions on each side is extended diagonally or at an oblique angle to the boundary line of the side face and opened out through one or both of the longitudinal edges as shown in Figs. 7 to 11, inclusive, vwhere the depressions thereat upon the two faces are shown-opposite to each other. These series of depress ions upon the two faces are also shown angularly disposed with respect to each other and this angle, as in-the 'fornier instance, is represented as substantially a right angle, although the angle may bea different one if thought advisable. In this disposition of the channels also their relative angular arrangement upon contacting surfaces is secured, as pointed out, with respect to the former construction,

and which is clearly shown in Fig. 11.

It will be noticed that in these type-bars and typebar blank constructions the area of contact between bar and bar is much reduced from what it would be if no channels were formed in the faces thereof. This is of advantage, as it diminishes the liability to an uneven bearing of one bar upon another, owing to the seams fact that the surfaces of the bars are uneven or not truly plane surfaces. The construction also facilitates the reduction of the face of a bar to a plane. it will also be understood that the presence of these channels or depressions represents a less amount of metal necessary for a bar than if the same was not channeled; hence for a given amount-of typographic matter the weight of metal necessary to set it up is considerably less than if the same was set up from unchannelcd bars.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. A typebar provided on one of its side faces with comparatively closely spaced channels or depressions, nngu larly disposed with respect to :1 boundary line of the side face of the typehar, and with intervening.hearing rihs of substantial width, and on the other of its side fiices with comparatively closely .*spaced hearing ribs of substantial width and intervening channels narrower than the chunnelson its former side.

2. A type-bar provided with channels or depressions upon its opposite faces which run in different directions with respect to each other. i

3. A type-bar provlded'with channels or depressions upon its opposite faces, those on one face running irunsversely to those on the other face.

4. A type bar provided with channels or depressions upon its opposite faces, the channels in one face running lengthwise of the type bar and the channels in the other face running transverse thereto 5. A type bar having upon one face spaced spurt channels or depressions, and upon the opposite face spaced apart channels or depressions, the channels or depressions upon one side'heing disposed at an angle to those upon the opposite-side.

FRANCIS l-I. RICHARDS.

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